Guard for shutter-fasteners



No. 608,3l8. Patented Aug. 2, I898.

w. E. BBALEY. GUARD FOR SHUTTER FASTENERS.

(Application filed Sept. 18, 1897.) (N o M o (1 el ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM-E. BRALEY, or FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

GUARD FOR SHUTTER-FASTENERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 608,318, dated August 2, 1898. Application filed September 13, 1897. Serial No. 651,500. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. BRALEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fall River, in the county of Bristol-and State of ters open.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which- Figure 1 is an outside view of part of a window-frame and showing a shutter hinged therein in the closed position, and showing also apart of the wall of the house; and Fig. 2, a side view thereof, showing the windowshutter in an open position and the wall in section.

In the drawings forming part of this speci fication the separate parts of my improvement are designated by the same numerals of reference in each of the views, and in said drawings I have shown at 5 a part of the wall of a house, at 6 a part of thewindowframe, and at 7 a window-shutter, and said shutter is hinged to the window-frame at 8 in the usual manner.

Connected with the window-shutter at 9 is a fastening device 10, which is of the usual or any preferred form, and this fastening device 10 is adapted to engage with a loop, staple, or similar device 11, secured to the wall of the house, and all these parts are of the ordinary and well-known construction and may be of any preferred form and form no part of this invention.

It is a well-known fact that birds are in the habit of roosting on the catches or fas-.

fastening devices or devices by which the shutter is held open, a guard 12, which, as shown in the drawings, consists of wire the upper end of which is secured in the wall, as shown at 13, and the lower end of which projects downwardly and outwardly directly over the fastening devices or devices of the shutter and is provided with a backwardly-directed exclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Iatent 1. A guard for shutter-fasteners consisting of a rod secured above said fastener and provided with a downwardly and outwardly in clined extension arranged vertically over said fastener, substantially as described.

2. A guard for shutter-fasteners, consisting of an inclined rod provided upon its upper end with a prong whereby the device is at-' tached to the building and at its lower end with an inwardly-extendin g portion arranged vertically above .the shutter-fastener, substantially as described.

3. A device for preventing birds from roosting on shutter-hooks which consists of a guard or inclined rod 12, having its lower end formed into an extension 14 with an intermediate loop 15, and provided on its upper end with a prong 13, whereby the device is of itself attachable to the building, and adapted to aline vertically with the shutter-hook, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 8th day of September, 1897.

WILLIAM E. BRALEY.

Witnesses:

HERBERT A. BORDEN, HENRY II. EARL. 

